Decadent Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes

This decadent chocolate cherry cupcake recipe just made our list of favorites. I was thinking about the yummy flavor combination of cherry and chocolate, which I love and how I haven’t made one of my fave chocolate cakes in awhile. The good news is, that disgusting cherry cough syrup my mom gave me as a child didn’t fully ruin my love for cherry! I like cherry if it’s paired with chocolate and especially if it involves Luxardo Gourmet Maraschino Cherries, because they’re seriously insanely delicious. For these chocolate cherry cupcakes, I used a trusted chocolate cake recipe passed down many years ago and made 24 deliciously moist cupcakes with a cherry in the middle and homemade meringue cherry cookies on top!